WIEN - BRADFORD - WASHINGTON - BERKELEY - NEW YORK - TORONTO
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WIEN (OESTERREICH)
Godinu dana posle napada:
Rat NATO-a protiv Jugoslavije - ne}emo nikada zaboraviti!
24.marta NATO je napao Jugolaviju, jednu suverenu dr`avu, bez objave
rata. Ujedinjena vojna snaga 19 bogatih dr`ava
uni{tila je na{u dr`avu pod izgovorom, da {tite ljudska prava na Kosovu
i time su naterali narod u bedu. Sve vreme dok su
78 dana vodili takozvani "humanitarni rat", NATO je prekr{io razne
ugovore i deklaracije, kao i sopstvene ustanove, kao
{to su Deklaracija ljudskih prava UN, Helsinki-ugovor, itd. UN i
Me|unarodno pravo su postali marionete NATO-a!
@alosni bilans
Preko 3.000 civila postali su `rtve agresije, veliki delovi
infrastrukture i ekonomije Jugoslavije su uni{teni. Napadi
NATO-raketa su upropastili prirodu, do{lo je do ekolo{ke katastrofe ne
samo u Jugoslaviji, nego i {irom Evrope. Cilj
embarga i politi~kog iznu|ivanja sa Zapadom na ~elu SAD i Nema~ke, je da
i dalje oslabe Srbiju i da podignu re`im
marioneta, koje bi bile sluge Svetskom poredku NATO-a.
Rat medija
Predhodni rat je ve} pripreman jednu deceniju unapred: Zapad se neumorno
me{ao, vodio je podbada~ku propagandu,
forsirao je rat i na kraju je razbio Jugoslaviju. Podr`avali su ratove u
Hrvatskoj, BiH i na Kosovu, dok su pomagali
separatisti~kim snagama protiv Jugoslavije. Svetsko mnenje su
manipulisali la`ima, jer su sa punom namerom nahu{kali
narode protiv Srba. Propaganda medija je izmislila "holokaust" nad
albanskim stanovni{tvom i da je NATO tobo`e zbog
toga morao da interveni{e, ali ni jedna od tih la`i do danas nije
dokazana: za vreme rata su neumorno ponavljali, da su
izme|u 100.000 i 225.000 Albanaca nestali i da su najverovatnije
pobijeni. Ali ~ak Me|unarodni tribunal za ratne zlo~ine
u Jugoslaviji (ICTY) nije mogao da ih prona|e, ve} je izjavio da je
na|eno 2.108 mrtvih, od kojih se ne zna, ~ijoj
nacionalnosti pripadaju.
Etni~ko ~i{}enje na Kosmetu
Dok je NATO kao vojna sila prisutna na Kosmetu, KFOR podr`ava etni~ko
~i{}enje, koje sad sprovodi "razoru`ana" OVK
nad nealbanskim stanovni{tvom. Proterali su do sada ukupno 300.000 Srba,
Crnogoraca, Roma, Turaka i drugih manjina,
~ak i Albance, koji se ose}aju lojalni prema Jugoslaviji. U Srbiji ve}
`ive preko jedan milion izbeglica i njihova situacija je
veoma te{ka.
NATO i Zapad jo{ uvek tvrde da je na naredbu re`ima iz Beograda do{lo do
sistematskog proterivanja, da je re`im tolerisao
etni~ko ~i{}enje - ali do dan-danas nemaju nikakve dokaze, ve} su
upotrebili tu propagandu da napadnu Jugoslaviju.
+ Mi danas ho}emo da Vas podsetimo, koje `rtve je doneo taj rat i ho}emo
da podsetimo, da i dalje uni{tavaju na{u zemlju
kroz ekonomsku blokadu. Jedini koji pate to su opet civili.
+ Ho}emo da podsetimo, da svi oni, koji su ovaj rat podr`avali, da su
ratni zlo~inci, jer su samovoljno i bez razmi{ljanja
prihvatili la`i medija.
+ Ho}emo da podsetimo, da sprovodjenje Novog svetskog poredka od NATO-a
ne zna~i ni{ta dobro ni za Austrijance, jer
ve} sada pla}aju 40 milijardi dolara za nove rakete! NATO }e dovesti rat
i bedu tako|e i na Zapad.
NATO napolje iz Jugoslavije i sa Balkana!
Zaustavite nacionalno i politi~ko ~i{}enje NATO-a i OVK!
Dosta je blokade!
Zapad mora da plati ratne od{tete bez ikakvih uslovljavanja!
Dosta je sa razbijanjem Jugoslavije - protiv podr`avanja separatisti~kih
pokreta od strane Zapada!
Pravda za Srbiju!
Stop priklju~enju Austrije u NATO i WEU, evropskom NATO-paktu!
Me|unarodni miting
24. Mart 2000
18.00 ~asova ispred parlamenta
20.00 ~asova na [tefansplacu
Jugoslovensko-Austrijski pokret solidarnosti (JÖSB)
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
joesb@...
-
Mi, 22.3.
16-18 Uhr
Schottenpassage
Demo
Fr, 24.3.
18 h Parlament
20 h Oper (musste aufgrund von Bauarbeiten geändert werden)
* Nein zu Beistandspflicht, WEU und NATO!
* Kein Sozialabbau für Aufrüstung!
* Erhalt der Neutralität!
Unterstützer:
Bewegung der Revolutionären Linken Chile (MIR)
Bewegung für soziale Befreiung (BSB)
Bewegung gegen den Krieg
Bewegungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
Casa del Pueblo latinoamericano
Gewerkschaftlicher Linksblock (GLB)
gpa-Jugend (SchülerInnen und StudentInnen)
Initiative für Frieden in Kurdistan
Internationales Solidaritätsforum (ISF)
Jugoslawischer Dachverband
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
Kampagne zur Verteidigung politischer und sozialer Rechte
Kommunistische Jugend Österreich (KJÖ)
Kommunistische Partei Österreich (KPÖ)
Kommunistischer StudentInnenverein (KSV)
Österreichischer Friedensrat
Prison Watch International Wien
Revolutionär Kommunistische Liga (RKL)
Sozialistische Jugend Österreich (SJÖ)
Wiener Friedensbewegung
Die JÖSB stellt ihre Beteiligung zusätzlich unter folgende Losungen:
* Stoppt die Vertreibungen durch UCK und NATO!
* NATO raus aus dem Kosovo!
* Schluss mit der Blockade gegen Jugoslawien!
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
joesb@...
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Sonntag im Vorstadtzentrum 15
15., Meiselstrasse 46/4
Jeden So von 16-22 Uhr
26.3. 18 h 30
Kosovo - ethnische Säuberung mit Hilfe der NATO
Ein Jahr nach Beginn des brutalen Bombardements Jugoslawiens ist die
Heuchelei der NATO sichbar: Nicht Menschenrechte wurden verteidigt,
sondern die Interessen der westlichen Allianz. Warum verhindert die
NATO heute nicht die blutige Vertreibung von Serben, Roma, Juden und
anderen Minderheiten aus dem Kosovo? Auf diese Frage wollen wir im
Laufe der Diskussion eine Antwort finden.
Bewegung für Soziale Befreiung
15., Meiselstrasse 46/4
bsb@...
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BRADFORD (UK)
For the international conference on Yugoslavia see
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On the anniversary of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia.....
Friday 24 - Sunday 26th March 2000
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The Yugoslav Crisis: international responses and the way forward
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(please note that the conference proper begins on Saturday morning
although
there are a number of events on Friday evening and that bookings for
accommodation must be made by Monday 20th March)
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Please also note that Father Sava from Kosovo has agreed to attend the
conference!
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An International Conference with Yugoslav music, food, theatre, film
and silent vigil - almost a festival for Yugoslavia!
Venue: Richmond Building, University of Bradford, UK
organised by:
the West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in the Balkans and the
Rsearch Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford, in
association with the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council
Supported by:
Committee for Peace in the Balkans (London); Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament;
National Peace Council; Refugee Action; Northern Refugee Centre,
Sheffield;
United Nations Association; Pax Christi; International Voluntary
Service;
Anglican Pacifist Fellowship; ECRE/ICVA Reference Group on Former
Yugoslavia,
led by the British Refugee Council
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/rusees/conference.html
Keynote Speakers:
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Father Sava
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,
Kosovo and Metohija
(needs no introduction...!)
Rev. Dr. Paul Oestreicher, International Consultant, Coventry Cathedral
a political scientist long associated with eastern Europe and the
anti-apartheid movement... recently spent a month in Belgrade for the
Church of
England
Larry Hollingsworth, former (and controversial!) head of UNHCR,
Bosnia... now a
freelance consultant and advisor to Christian Aid
Paul Watson, Balkan's Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist... one of the few journalists to
remain in
Yugoslavia during the bombing... and fiercely independent
Felicity Arbuthnot, journalist
... specialises in social and environmental issues with special
knowledge of
Iraq and the effects of Depleted Uranium and cluster bombs...a regular
contributor to the Daily Herald and New Internationalist and others...
Bob Marshall Andrews MP QC
...will be talking on the legal aspects of the recent war
Programme of Events
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Friday 24th March (the anniversary of NATO bombing)
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5.00pm Feature film, one night only by special arrangement, 'Pretty
Village
Pretty Flame' (Lepa Sela Lepo Gore)(dir. Srdjan Dragojevic),
Pictureville,
National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Discounts for
conference
ticket holders
'an electrifying war movie, gripping and dense, frequently very funny, a
masterpiece' Misha Glenny, Sight and Sound
'Wilder in its black humour than MASH, bolder in its vision of politics
and
the military than any movie Stanley Kubrick has ever made' Emanuel Levy,
Variety
'...a powerful assault on the insanity of war' New York Times
'...hurls the Bosnian war into our faces like a hunk of burning
debris...war
in the nineties is different: war profiteers hawk TVs while chatting on
cellphones and the spoils of war are a Gameboy...It burns. It rocks. The
soundtrack stutters in your head. See it on the big screen if you can'
Jonathan Miller, Resnap
7.45pm Meeting: 'Promoting a Culture of Peace in the North of England -
creating partners' called by the National Peace Council @ IHS
Department, 26
Pemberton Drive, Bradford University
9.30pm -10.30pm Candlelight Silent Vigil, Queen Victoria's Memorial,
City
Centre, Bradford . Please wear dark or black clothes and bring a
candle!.
Called by Yorkshire CND with the support of the international
conference.
9.00pm - 2.00am . 'Yugoslav Rock Night', New Beehive Inn (nightclub),
Manningham
Road, Bradford
Saturday 25th March
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09.30am International Conference - registration and coffee
10.30am Opening by the Lord Mayor of Bradford
Day of Seminars and Workshops with keynote speakers
5.00pm close
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8.00pm Theatre Production, Bradford Alhambra Studio Theatre.
'...is normal!' a play by Ray Brown about his friends in former
Yugoslavia
with 'Finetime' Fonteyne and Sandra Hunt
'...is normal! is terrific. Ray Brown has found an important way to
write about
important matters in a time when trivia rules...' Trevor Griffiths
'...like an except from a surrealist diary, yet it's based on the
reality of
what was my country...' Goran Stefanovski
'...is normal!' is a funny, human, spellbinding mixture of fact,
fiction,
performance and dramatic readings which also features music and voices
recorded
live in former Yugoslavia.
+ Yugoslav art exhibition, Yugoslav wine and food
profits to the Balkan Initiatives Community Fund
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Sunday 26th
10.00am - Conference - Seminars, Workshops and Plenary Sessions
5.00pm close
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Seminars/Workshops
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Staffed by leading experts and practitioners from Moscow, via
Yugoslavia,
Croatia, Bosnia to the US - and of course the UK.....
International and strategic Issues
The Aid and NGO Response
Challenging Nationalism
The Economic Dimension
Environmental Destruction
Culture and the Yugoslav Wars
Direct Aid and Community Development
Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Women and Peacework
Peace Activism
Local government, town twinning and peace-building
Refugees in Britain and Yugoslavia
Peacework in political parties
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The Yugoslav Crisis: International Responses and the Way Forward
University of Bradford
25-26 March 2000
Draft Timetable
Saturday
0930 Registration and Coffee
1030 Plenary
Welcome speech: Deputy Lord Mayor of Bradford
Keynote Speakers: Father Sava, Decani Monastery, Kosovo; Paul
Oestreicher, International Consultant, Coventry Cathedral, Stephen
Henthorne, Defense Studies Foundation; Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times
1200 Seminars/Workshops
a) Strategic and International Issues: The Road to Kosovo
Chair: Tom Gallagher, Department of Peace Studies, University of
Bradford
Alex Bellamy
Department of International Politics, University of Aberystwyth
The Path(s) to Peace? Reassessing the Kosovo Settlements
John Allcock
Research Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford
Rural ressentiment and the break-up of Yugoslavia
Zoran Lakic
University of Montenegro, Yugoslavia
Breaking or Disintegration of Yugoslavia?
b) The Aid and NGO Response
Dragica Milinkovic
Centre for Advanced Legal Studies, Belgrade
Civil Society, Civil Disobedience and NGOs in Serbia
Sanja Cosic
Danas
The Yugoslav Independent Media: the impact of NATO bombing and survival
David Chandler
Leeds Metropolitan University
The Lessons of Bosnia
c) Challenging Nationalism 1
Chair: John Allcock, RUSEES, University of Bradford
Dennis Browne
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA
Cultures of Deliberation and Expediency: an alternative to the
nationalist paradigm
Ana Devic
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, USA
The Multilayered Amnesia of Yugoslavia's Breakdown: Social Sciences
Troubled Vision of Nationalism
1330 Lunch
1430 Seminars/Workshops
a) Strategic and International Issues 2: International Perspectives
Chair: Dr Phil Wright, University of Sheffield and Sheffield Committee
for Peace in the Balkans
Dragan Simeunovic
Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
Kosovo War in Yugoslavia: State and Perspective
Luca Ratti
Centre for European Studies, University of Southampton
NATO Enlargement to the Balkans: The View from Rome
Ekaterina Stepanova
Moscow Centre, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Russia in the Kosovo Crisis
b) Strategic and International Issues 3: Implications
Wim van Meurs
Centre for Applied Policy Research, University of Munich
The Stability Pact: European Ideals and Regional Realities
Chad Staddon
Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England,
Bristol
Militarism and Nature at the Millennium: the environmental consequences
of the 1999 NATO campaign in FRY
Zoran Kusovac
Sentinel Regional Security Assessment, Janes
Disintegration, Division, Integration: Strategic Prospects for Balkans
States and Sub-State Entities
c) Direct Aid and Community Development
Anya Hart
IVS/Balkan Sunflowers
Denis Rustovitz
Chairman, Edinburgh Direct Aid
Success and Failure in Rebuilding Shattered Communities in Bosnia and
Kosovo
d) Peace Activism
Chair: Alan Brooke, West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in the Balkans
Dick Withecombe, Greater Manchester Committee for Peace in the Balkans
Dick Pitt, Sheffield Committee for Peace in the Balkans
Nigel Chamberlain, Press and Information Officer, CND National
Green Party representative
e) Challenging Nationalism 2: Media
Irena Ristic
University of Passau
Western media and NATO's Yugoslav War
Bob Jiggins
Research Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford
Truth and Reality: the Media War in the West
Sanja Pecujlic-Mastilovic
BKCW Mental Health Trust, London
'Disposable Identities: A personal account of media formation of
national identity'
1600 Coffee
1630 Plenary and Panel Discussion
Respondents
Alexsandar Lopasic, Stephen Henthorne
1730 Closing Remarks
2000 Theatre Production '...is normal!', Bradford Alhambra Studio
Theatre
2200 Music and Dancing, Small Hall, Richmond Building
Sunday
1000 Plenary with Keynote Speakers
Felicity Arbuthnot, Journalistt; Bob Marshall Andrews MP QC; Larry
Hollingsworth, former Head of UNHCR, Bosnia
1130 Seminars/Workshops
a) Economic Issues
Chair: Marko Milivojevic, RUSEES, University of Bradford
Boris Young
USA
An Emerging Political Crisis: Self-management and Market Reform in
Yugoslavia During the Early 1980s
Margaret Cobble
University of Plymouth, UK
Bosnia: neo-liberal development Strategies and Consequences for Economic
and Human Development
Phil Wright
University of Sheffield
The Effects of Sanctions on Yugoslavia
b) Municipalities and Peace-Building
Chair: Ted Brown, Projects Manager, City of Bradford Council
Peter Redfern, External Liaison Manager, City of Bradford Council
Marija Caric
Association of Free Cities and Municipalities, Yugoslavia
Diana Beckley, Norfolk and Norwich Novi Sad Association
Gordana Ciric
University of Novi Sad
Universities in Serbia: Status during the Crisis and a View towards the
Future
c) Environment 1: General Environmental Impacts of the War
Chair: Dr. Chad Staddon
Pekka Haavisto
UNEP, Geneva
The Joint UNEP/UNCHS(Habitat) Balkans Task Force
Richard Clarke, Marija Anteric
Birkbeck College and Kings College, University of London
Conflict and Environment in the Former Yugoslavia
Radoje Lausevic
Serbian Ecological Society, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
The Environmental Effect of NATO<?PC850(146)>s War
d) Conflict Prevention and Reconciliation
Chair: Dr. Andrew Rigby, University of Coventry
David Steele
Centre for Strategic & International Studies, Washington
Religious Communitites' Role in Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Svetlana Kijevcanin
Group MOST/Centre for Anti-War Action, Belgrade
1300 Lunch
1400 Seminars/Workshops
b) Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Dusan Ignatovic, YUCOM, Belgrade
Draft Evaders and Deserters
Beth Logan
c) Environment 2: Post-War Environmental Reconstruction
Chair: Dr. Chad Staddon
Jennifer Braswell
Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary
The REC's Involvement in Balkan Reconstruction
Valentina Mileusnic Vucic
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Environment Issues in the Context of Economic Sanctions Against
Yugoslavia and War Destruction
Catherine Euler
CADU, UK
Depleted Uranium and the Kosovo War
d) Women and Peacework
Jane Gregory
Women's Aid to former Yugoslavia
Pat Sanchez
Women's Aid for Peace
e) War and Yugoslav Culture
Chair: Dr David Norris, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of
Nottingham
prof. dr. Ljilijana Bogoeva
Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade
The Representation of the Yugoslav Crisis in Film and Drama
prof. dr. Ratomir Ristic
University of Nis
Witnessing the rise of nationalisms and the teaching of literature
Dragan Radovanovic
Sculptor, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Bojan Bem
Painter, Belgrade
Ray Brown
Broadcaster and Playwright
Leeds
1530 Coffee
1600 Plenary
Marija Caric, Association of Free Cities and Municipalities; Joan
McQueenie Mitric, journalist, USA; prof . dr. Miroljub Radojkovic,
Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
Conference Organiser (UK)
Bob Jiggins
RUSEES, University of Bradford & West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in
the Balkans
Tel: +44 (0)7050 615511 Fax: +44 (0)7050 644569 Email:
r.jiggins@...
Conference Organiser (Yugoslavia)
Svetlana Djuric
New Balkan Initiatives, Belgrade
Email: lanadj@...
Conference Floor Manager
Richard Johnson
Tel: +44 (0)1484 863726 Mobile: +44 (0)7944 253405 Email: volp@...
Private Accommodation Manager
Rachel Sweeting
WYCPB
Tel: +44 (0)1484 842428 Email: westview@...
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STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG
In a message dated 03/21/2000 7:16:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
r.jiggins@... writes:
<< Committee for Peace in the Balkans (London) >>
Note that I spoke to Carol Turner who I believe is the coordinator of
the
Committee for Peace in the Balkans in London. She had learned of this
conference from email. Unless the Committee has endorsed this AFTE the
fact,
continuing to post this crucial endorsement is FALSE ADVERTISING.
There is
a good reason for this falsity: you will note that on the top of the
list of
speakers is Father Sava. Father Sava, who works with Bishop Artijime
and
takes the same "line", plays a role like that of Noam Chosmky -
"Position
Two" . His utterances are used worldwide by the Serb-bashers, blaming
the
problems in Kosovo on the Milosevich government, of which he
disapproves.
His statements, which are often quite extreme, are then quoted by the
mainstream press (a search on Lexis turns up a flood of Fr. Sava
references
in the western media) usually saying "Even Fr. Sava, a Serbian priest,
said;'
and then quoting him to justify Western policy.
PS - I just looked at the subsequent post. Look at the whole focus of
the
thing - it is in support of the so-called independent opposition and
media in
Serbia. Aren't they the ones whose independence has been bolstered by
$100,000,000 from the US Senate? Moreover - Carnegie Endowment for
Peace?
They're the ones who invented the whole humanitarian interventionist
strategy. I smell a BIG RAT. I will stick my neck out and say:
evidence
here suggests this is a conference intended to present the
"humanitarian"
part of the "humanitarian war" coalition AS IF IT WERE a real peace
force
(hence the unauthorized use of the highly honorable Committee for Peace
in
the Balkans.)
Best
Jared
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WASHINGTON (USA)
PICKET for TRUTH
MARCH for JUSTICE
The war is not over. On the 1st anniversary of the criminal US/NATO
bombing
of Yugoslavia, demonstrate to demand:
U.S./NATO OUT OF KOSOVO
* No New Bombing of Yugoslavia
* Stop fascist KLA terror against all peoples of Kosovo and Yugoslavia.
Friday, March 24th @ 4pm
Gather for a "PICKET for TRUTH"=20
at the National Press Club,=20
14th and =91F=92 Streets NW
MARCH for JUSTICE at 5pm=20
Past the Washington Post and on to the=20
White House for a candle light vigil.
Tens of thousands of US and NATO (KFOR) troops occupy Kosovo today. What
is the result? Over 250,000 Serbs, Roma people, Turks, Egyptians,
Albanians an= d others have been driven from Kosovo by methods of
KKK-style vigilante violence carried out by the so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA).=20
KFOR solders turn a blind eye to the destruction and desecration of all
cultural and religious sites in Kosovo that is daily being done by
right-wing Kosovo Albanians, mostly KLA members unsuccessfully
transformed
to the so-called KPF.=20
The Pentagon is constructing a huge military base in Kosovo, and is now
attempting to transform the Ukraine, the second largest republic in the
former Soviet Union, into a NATO satellite to threaten Russia and secure
th= e oil riches of the Caspian Sea.
One year ago, the US and NATO began a massive bombing campaign against
Yugoslavia, dropping 23,000 bombs and missiles which killed thousands of
innocent civilians, all in the name of protecting =93ethnic
minorities.=94
= This is the same government which let the killers of Amadou Diallo
walk
free.
Today, the threat of a new US/NATO attack on Yugoslavia looms, as
General
Wesley Clark accuses the Yugoslav government of rebuilding its military
forces. While the US gives the KLA free rein to attack Serbian and
Albanian civilians in Mitrovica and southern Serbia, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright accuses Yugoslavia of =93interfering=94 in its own
internal affair= s.
Join us on March 24th to =93Picket for Truth=94 at the National Press
Club. Let=92s send a message to the mass media in this country: STOP THE
LIES!! Then, =93March for Justice=94 to the White House to demand the
indictment o= f the war criminals Clinton, Albright, Clark, Cohen and
the
others.
Sponsored by the International Action Center, for more information:
Phone: 202-588-1205 =20
email: npcdc@...
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BERKELEY (USA)
> >>
> >> AWARD-WINNING
> >> VIDEO DOCUMENTARY SCREENING:
> >>
> >>
> >> YUGOSLAVIA: THE AVOIDABLE WAR
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> produced by
> >> George Bogdanich and Martin Lettmayer
> >> for Frontier Theatre and Film Inc.
> >>
> >>
> >> Tuesday, March 21, 2000, 7:00 - 9:00pm
> >> International House (Great Hall)
> >> 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War" is an award-winning video documentary
> >> which examines US and western intervention in the Balkans. While
> >presenting
> >> themselves as peacemakers, Western countries helped initiate the break
up
> >> of Yugoslavia, by providing illegal arms and intelligence support to
> >> different ethnic factions.
> >>
> >> The documentary traces the diplomatic and military blunders by the
west
> >> which helped inflame ethnic tensions into a full blown civil war,
using
> >> original footage and revealing interviews with well placed diplomats
and
> >> military experts.
> >>
> >> Free admission
> >> Sponsored by the Balkan Information Project
> >> bip@...
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________
> >>
> >>
> >> KOSOVO: ONE YEAR LATTER
> >>
> >> PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL DISCUSSION:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "CONSEQUIENCES OF INTERVENTIONISM ON AMERICA'S FUTURE
> >>
> >>
> >> by
> >> Dr. Thomas Fleming and Dr. Srdjan Trifkovic
> >>
> >> Thursday, March 23, 2000, 7:00 - 9:00pm
> >> International House (Great Hall)
> >> 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
> >>
> >>
> >> Thomas Fleming, President of The Rockford Institute and Editor of
> >> "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture"
> >>
> >> Srdjan Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor of "Chronicles: A Magazine of
> >> American Culture" and Executive Director of The Lord Byron Foundation
for
> >> Balkan Studies
> >>
> >> They have just come back from visiting Serbia and Montenegro and will
be
> >> discussing the new LBF book "KOSOVO UNDER NATO"
> >>
> >>
> >> Free admission
> >> Co-Sponsored by the Balkan Information Project (bip@...)
> >> and UCB's Peace and Conflict Studies Progra
> >>
> >
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NEW YORK (USA)
UPDATE
Missing from yesterday's email was the time of the NYC
demonstration. It will be at 5 pm. Sorry!
The war is not over
US/NATO OUT OF KOSOVO!
On the 1st Anniversary of the US/NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
Rallies set around the U.S. See www.iacenter.org for the city nearest
you.
In NYC,
Assemble and Rally:
Friday, March 24
5 pm
Times Square--Armed Forces Recruiting Station
(43rd St. and Broadway)
Following the rally:
March for Truth to the New York Times and Ch. 7
STOP THE FASCIST TERROR AGAINST THE SERB AND ROMA PEOPLE
Tens of thousands of US and NATO troops occupy Kosovo today. What is
the
result? Over 250,000 Serbs, Roma people, Egyptians and others have been
driven from Kosovo by methods of KKK-style vigilante violence carried
out
by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The Pentagon is
constructing a huge US military base in Kosovo. Under the pretext of
fighting for "national independence" the US and other imperialist
countries have militarily occupied and turned into semi-colonies Bosnia,
Slovenia, Croatia and other former republics of Yugoslavia. This is
their
plan for Kosovo as well. The US/NATO war is not over. The US is now
attempting to transform the Ukraine, the second largest republic in the
former Soviet Union, into a NATO satellite.
Last March 24 the US and NATO countries began bombing Belgrade, Novi
Sad,
Pristina and the other cities of Yugoslavia/Serbia. Thousands of
civilians
died from 23,000 bombs and cruise missiles. This was done in the name of
protecting "ethnic minorities." The same government that lets the
killers
of Amadou Diallo walk free arrogantly proclaims its right to mass murder
Serb and other Yugoslav people in the name of "fighting racism and
ethnic
discrimination."
Join us on March 24, 2000, in a demonstration to demand that US and NATO
leave Kosovo. Demand that Clinton, General Wesley Clark, Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright and others be indicted for war crimes against
the
people of Yugoslavia.
International Action Center
39 West 14th Street, Room 206
New York, NY 10011
email: iacenter@...
web: www.iacenter.org
CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE www.mumia2000.org
phone: 212 633-6646
fax: 212 633-2889
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TORONTO (CANADA)
Laying of the Wreath at the Cenotaph, on March 24
Toronto 2 P.M.
Old City Hall ( Queen St. W.)
The board members of the ASW , at the meeting held on Wednesday
March 15,
have decided to mark March 24 , (the new "Remembrance Day" for all the
Serbs,) with the Wreath Laying at the Cenotaph, at the Old City Hall ,at
2
PM , the exact time when the first bombs were dropped by NATO a year
ago.
We have decided that this is the most appropriate place to start a
"Remembrance Day " for the Serbs of Toronto.
We hope that our presence will remind our fellow Canadians of the
tragedy that has befallen the people of Yugoslavia and of the innocent
victims of NATO aggression.
We are working together with all the other groups and hope to have
as many people as possible at that time of the day.
The invitation to join us and honour the innocent victims of this
illegal and
unjust war, has been
sent to other women and peace groups.
After the wreath laying and observing the minute of silence we
will quietly move to Nathan Philip Square's speaker's corner to continue
a
silent vigil until 5.30 PM and after that we will join thousands of
Serbs
in front of the American Consulate , where the memorial starts at 6p.m.
This way we give everybody the chance to join us at the time that
fits the best into their schedule of the day.
We encourage everybody to join us
For more information ,please call Snezana at 416- 928-0043
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WIEN (OESTERREICH)
Godinu dana posle napada:
Rat NATO-a protiv Jugoslavije - ne}emo nikada zaboraviti!
24.marta NATO je napao Jugolaviju, jednu suverenu dr`avu, bez objave
rata. Ujedinjena vojna snaga 19 bogatih dr`ava
uni{tila je na{u dr`avu pod izgovorom, da {tite ljudska prava na Kosovu
i time su naterali narod u bedu. Sve vreme dok su
78 dana vodili takozvani "humanitarni rat", NATO je prekr{io razne
ugovore i deklaracije, kao i sopstvene ustanove, kao
{to su Deklaracija ljudskih prava UN, Helsinki-ugovor, itd. UN i
Me|unarodno pravo su postali marionete NATO-a!
@alosni bilans
Preko 3.000 civila postali su `rtve agresije, veliki delovi
infrastrukture i ekonomije Jugoslavije su uni{teni. Napadi
NATO-raketa su upropastili prirodu, do{lo je do ekolo{ke katastrofe ne
samo u Jugoslaviji, nego i {irom Evrope. Cilj
embarga i politi~kog iznu|ivanja sa Zapadom na ~elu SAD i Nema~ke, je da
i dalje oslabe Srbiju i da podignu re`im
marioneta, koje bi bile sluge Svetskom poredku NATO-a.
Rat medija
Predhodni rat je ve} pripreman jednu deceniju unapred: Zapad se neumorno
me{ao, vodio je podbada~ku propagandu,
forsirao je rat i na kraju je razbio Jugoslaviju. Podr`avali su ratove u
Hrvatskoj, BiH i na Kosovu, dok su pomagali
separatisti~kim snagama protiv Jugoslavije. Svetsko mnenje su
manipulisali la`ima, jer su sa punom namerom nahu{kali
narode protiv Srba. Propaganda medija je izmislila "holokaust" nad
albanskim stanovni{tvom i da je NATO tobo`e zbog
toga morao da interveni{e, ali ni jedna od tih la`i do danas nije
dokazana: za vreme rata su neumorno ponavljali, da su
izme|u 100.000 i 225.000 Albanaca nestali i da su najverovatnije
pobijeni. Ali ~ak Me|unarodni tribunal za ratne zlo~ine
u Jugoslaviji (ICTY) nije mogao da ih prona|e, ve} je izjavio da je
na|eno 2.108 mrtvih, od kojih se ne zna, ~ijoj
nacionalnosti pripadaju.
Etni~ko ~i{}enje na Kosmetu
Dok je NATO kao vojna sila prisutna na Kosmetu, KFOR podr`ava etni~ko
~i{}enje, koje sad sprovodi "razoru`ana" OVK
nad nealbanskim stanovni{tvom. Proterali su do sada ukupno 300.000 Srba,
Crnogoraca, Roma, Turaka i drugih manjina,
~ak i Albance, koji se ose}aju lojalni prema Jugoslaviji. U Srbiji ve}
`ive preko jedan milion izbeglica i njihova situacija je
veoma te{ka.
NATO i Zapad jo{ uvek tvrde da je na naredbu re`ima iz Beograda do{lo do
sistematskog proterivanja, da je re`im tolerisao
etni~ko ~i{}enje - ali do dan-danas nemaju nikakve dokaze, ve} su
upotrebili tu propagandu da napadnu Jugoslaviju.
+ Mi danas ho}emo da Vas podsetimo, koje `rtve je doneo taj rat i ho}emo
da podsetimo, da i dalje uni{tavaju na{u zemlju
kroz ekonomsku blokadu. Jedini koji pate to su opet civili.
+ Ho}emo da podsetimo, da svi oni, koji su ovaj rat podr`avali, da su
ratni zlo~inci, jer su samovoljno i bez razmi{ljanja
prihvatili la`i medija.
+ Ho}emo da podsetimo, da sprovodjenje Novog svetskog poredka od NATO-a
ne zna~i ni{ta dobro ni za Austrijance, jer
ve} sada pla}aju 40 milijardi dolara za nove rakete! NATO }e dovesti rat
i bedu tako|e i na Zapad.
NATO napolje iz Jugoslavije i sa Balkana!
Zaustavite nacionalno i politi~ko ~i{}enje NATO-a i OVK!
Dosta je blokade!
Zapad mora da plati ratne od{tete bez ikakvih uslovljavanja!
Dosta je sa razbijanjem Jugoslavije - protiv podr`avanja separatisti~kih
pokreta od strane Zapada!
Pravda za Srbiju!
Stop priklju~enju Austrije u NATO i WEU, evropskom NATO-paktu!
Me|unarodni miting
24. Mart 2000
18.00 ~asova ispred parlamenta
20.00 ~asova na [tefansplacu
Jugoslovensko-Austrijski pokret solidarnosti (JÖSB)
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
joesb@...
-
Mi, 22.3.
16-18 Uhr
Schottenpassage
Demo
Fr, 24.3.
18 h Parlament
20 h Oper (musste aufgrund von Bauarbeiten geändert werden)
* Nein zu Beistandspflicht, WEU und NATO!
* Kein Sozialabbau für Aufrüstung!
* Erhalt der Neutralität!
Unterstützer:
Bewegung der Revolutionären Linken Chile (MIR)
Bewegung für soziale Befreiung (BSB)
Bewegung gegen den Krieg
Bewegungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
Casa del Pueblo latinoamericano
Gewerkschaftlicher Linksblock (GLB)
gpa-Jugend (SchülerInnen und StudentInnen)
Initiative für Frieden in Kurdistan
Internationales Solidaritätsforum (ISF)
Jugoslawischer Dachverband
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
Kampagne zur Verteidigung politischer und sozialer Rechte
Kommunistische Jugend Österreich (KJÖ)
Kommunistische Partei Österreich (KPÖ)
Kommunistischer StudentInnenverein (KSV)
Österreichischer Friedensrat
Prison Watch International Wien
Revolutionär Kommunistische Liga (RKL)
Sozialistische Jugend Österreich (SJÖ)
Wiener Friedensbewegung
Die JÖSB stellt ihre Beteiligung zusätzlich unter folgende Losungen:
* Stoppt die Vertreibungen durch UCK und NATO!
* NATO raus aus dem Kosovo!
* Schluss mit der Blockade gegen Jugoslawien!
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
joesb@...
-
Sonntag im Vorstadtzentrum 15
15., Meiselstrasse 46/4
Jeden So von 16-22 Uhr
26.3. 18 h 30
Kosovo - ethnische Säuberung mit Hilfe der NATO
Ein Jahr nach Beginn des brutalen Bombardements Jugoslawiens ist die
Heuchelei der NATO sichbar: Nicht Menschenrechte wurden verteidigt,
sondern die Interessen der westlichen Allianz. Warum verhindert die
NATO heute nicht die blutige Vertreibung von Serben, Roma, Juden und
anderen Minderheiten aus dem Kosovo? Auf diese Frage wollen wir im
Laufe der Diskussion eine Antwort finden.
Bewegung für Soziale Befreiung
15., Meiselstrasse 46/4
bsb@...
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BRADFORD (UK)
For the international conference on Yugoslavia see
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On the anniversary of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia.....
Friday 24 - Sunday 26th March 2000
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The Yugoslav Crisis: international responses and the way forward
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(please note that the conference proper begins on Saturday morning
although
there are a number of events on Friday evening and that bookings for
accommodation must be made by Monday 20th March)
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Please also note that Father Sava from Kosovo has agreed to attend the
conference!
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An International Conference with Yugoslav music, food, theatre, film
and silent vigil - almost a festival for Yugoslavia!
Venue: Richmond Building, University of Bradford, UK
organised by:
the West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in the Balkans and the
Rsearch Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford, in
association with the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council
Supported by:
Committee for Peace in the Balkans (London); Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament;
National Peace Council; Refugee Action; Northern Refugee Centre,
Sheffield;
United Nations Association; Pax Christi; International Voluntary
Service;
Anglican Pacifist Fellowship; ECRE/ICVA Reference Group on Former
Yugoslavia,
led by the British Refugee Council
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/rusees/conference.html
Keynote Speakers:
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Father Sava
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,
Kosovo and Metohija
(needs no introduction...!)
Rev. Dr. Paul Oestreicher, International Consultant, Coventry Cathedral
a political scientist long associated with eastern Europe and the
anti-apartheid movement... recently spent a month in Belgrade for the
Church of
England
Larry Hollingsworth, former (and controversial!) head of UNHCR,
Bosnia... now a
freelance consultant and advisor to Christian Aid
Paul Watson, Balkan's Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist... one of the few journalists to
remain in
Yugoslavia during the bombing... and fiercely independent
Felicity Arbuthnot, journalist
... specialises in social and environmental issues with special
knowledge of
Iraq and the effects of Depleted Uranium and cluster bombs...a regular
contributor to the Daily Herald and New Internationalist and others...
Bob Marshall Andrews MP QC
...will be talking on the legal aspects of the recent war
Programme of Events
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Friday 24th March (the anniversary of NATO bombing)
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5.00pm Feature film, one night only by special arrangement, 'Pretty
Village
Pretty Flame' (Lepa Sela Lepo Gore)(dir. Srdjan Dragojevic),
Pictureville,
National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Discounts for
conference
ticket holders
'an electrifying war movie, gripping and dense, frequently very funny, a
masterpiece' Misha Glenny, Sight and Sound
'Wilder in its black humour than MASH, bolder in its vision of politics
and
the military than any movie Stanley Kubrick has ever made' Emanuel Levy,
Variety
'...a powerful assault on the insanity of war' New York Times
'...hurls the Bosnian war into our faces like a hunk of burning
debris...war
in the nineties is different: war profiteers hawk TVs while chatting on
cellphones and the spoils of war are a Gameboy...It burns. It rocks. The
soundtrack stutters in your head. See it on the big screen if you can'
Jonathan Miller, Resnap
7.45pm Meeting: 'Promoting a Culture of Peace in the North of England -
creating partners' called by the National Peace Council @ IHS
Department, 26
Pemberton Drive, Bradford University
9.30pm -10.30pm Candlelight Silent Vigil, Queen Victoria's Memorial,
City
Centre, Bradford . Please wear dark or black clothes and bring a
candle!.
Called by Yorkshire CND with the support of the international
conference.
9.00pm - 2.00am . 'Yugoslav Rock Night', New Beehive Inn (nightclub),
Manningham
Road, Bradford
Saturday 25th March
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09.30am International Conference - registration and coffee
10.30am Opening by the Lord Mayor of Bradford
Day of Seminars and Workshops with keynote speakers
5.00pm close
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8.00pm Theatre Production, Bradford Alhambra Studio Theatre.
'...is normal!' a play by Ray Brown about his friends in former
Yugoslavia
with 'Finetime' Fonteyne and Sandra Hunt
'...is normal! is terrific. Ray Brown has found an important way to
write about
important matters in a time when trivia rules...' Trevor Griffiths
'...like an except from a surrealist diary, yet it's based on the
reality of
what was my country...' Goran Stefanovski
'...is normal!' is a funny, human, spellbinding mixture of fact,
fiction,
performance and dramatic readings which also features music and voices
recorded
live in former Yugoslavia.
+ Yugoslav art exhibition, Yugoslav wine and food
profits to the Balkan Initiatives Community Fund
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Sunday 26th
10.00am - Conference - Seminars, Workshops and Plenary Sessions
5.00pm close
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Seminars/Workshops
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Staffed by leading experts and practitioners from Moscow, via
Yugoslavia,
Croatia, Bosnia to the US - and of course the UK.....
International and strategic Issues
The Aid and NGO Response
Challenging Nationalism
The Economic Dimension
Environmental Destruction
Culture and the Yugoslav Wars
Direct Aid and Community Development
Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Women and Peacework
Peace Activism
Local government, town twinning and peace-building
Refugees in Britain and Yugoslavia
Peacework in political parties
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The Yugoslav Crisis: International Responses and the Way Forward
University of Bradford
25-26 March 2000
Draft Timetable
Saturday
0930 Registration and Coffee
1030 Plenary
Welcome speech: Deputy Lord Mayor of Bradford
Keynote Speakers: Father Sava, Decani Monastery, Kosovo; Paul
Oestreicher, International Consultant, Coventry Cathedral, Stephen
Henthorne, Defense Studies Foundation; Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times
1200 Seminars/Workshops
a) Strategic and International Issues: The Road to Kosovo
Chair: Tom Gallagher, Department of Peace Studies, University of
Bradford
Alex Bellamy
Department of International Politics, University of Aberystwyth
The Path(s) to Peace? Reassessing the Kosovo Settlements
John Allcock
Research Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford
Rural ressentiment and the break-up of Yugoslavia
Zoran Lakic
University of Montenegro, Yugoslavia
Breaking or Disintegration of Yugoslavia?
b) The Aid and NGO Response
Dragica Milinkovic
Centre for Advanced Legal Studies, Belgrade
Civil Society, Civil Disobedience and NGOs in Serbia
Sanja Cosic
Danas
The Yugoslav Independent Media: the impact of NATO bombing and survival
David Chandler
Leeds Metropolitan University
The Lessons of Bosnia
c) Challenging Nationalism 1
Chair: John Allcock, RUSEES, University of Bradford
Dennis Browne
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA
Cultures of Deliberation and Expediency: an alternative to the
nationalist paradigm
Ana Devic
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, USA
The Multilayered Amnesia of Yugoslavia's Breakdown: Social Sciences
Troubled Vision of Nationalism
1330 Lunch
1430 Seminars/Workshops
a) Strategic and International Issues 2: International Perspectives
Chair: Dr Phil Wright, University of Sheffield and Sheffield Committee
for Peace in the Balkans
Dragan Simeunovic
Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
Kosovo War in Yugoslavia: State and Perspective
Luca Ratti
Centre for European Studies, University of Southampton
NATO Enlargement to the Balkans: The View from Rome
Ekaterina Stepanova
Moscow Centre, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Russia in the Kosovo Crisis
b) Strategic and International Issues 3: Implications
Wim van Meurs
Centre for Applied Policy Research, University of Munich
The Stability Pact: European Ideals and Regional Realities
Chad Staddon
Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England,
Bristol
Militarism and Nature at the Millennium: the environmental consequences
of the 1999 NATO campaign in FRY
Zoran Kusovac
Sentinel Regional Security Assessment, Janes
Disintegration, Division, Integration: Strategic Prospects for Balkans
States and Sub-State Entities
c) Direct Aid and Community Development
Anya Hart
IVS/Balkan Sunflowers
Denis Rustovitz
Chairman, Edinburgh Direct Aid
Success and Failure in Rebuilding Shattered Communities in Bosnia and
Kosovo
d) Peace Activism
Chair: Alan Brooke, West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in the Balkans
Dick Withecombe, Greater Manchester Committee for Peace in the Balkans
Dick Pitt, Sheffield Committee for Peace in the Balkans
Nigel Chamberlain, Press and Information Officer, CND National
Green Party representative
e) Challenging Nationalism 2: Media
Irena Ristic
University of Passau
Western media and NATO's Yugoslav War
Bob Jiggins
Research Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford
Truth and Reality: the Media War in the West
Sanja Pecujlic-Mastilovic
BKCW Mental Health Trust, London
'Disposable Identities: A personal account of media formation of
national identity'
1600 Coffee
1630 Plenary and Panel Discussion
Respondents
Alexsandar Lopasic, Stephen Henthorne
1730 Closing Remarks
2000 Theatre Production '...is normal!', Bradford Alhambra Studio
Theatre
2200 Music and Dancing, Small Hall, Richmond Building
Sunday
1000 Plenary with Keynote Speakers
Felicity Arbuthnot, Journalistt; Bob Marshall Andrews MP QC; Larry
Hollingsworth, former Head of UNHCR, Bosnia
1130 Seminars/Workshops
a) Economic Issues
Chair: Marko Milivojevic, RUSEES, University of Bradford
Boris Young
USA
An Emerging Political Crisis: Self-management and Market Reform in
Yugoslavia During the Early 1980s
Margaret Cobble
University of Plymouth, UK
Bosnia: neo-liberal development Strategies and Consequences for Economic
and Human Development
Phil Wright
University of Sheffield
The Effects of Sanctions on Yugoslavia
b) Municipalities and Peace-Building
Chair: Ted Brown, Projects Manager, City of Bradford Council
Peter Redfern, External Liaison Manager, City of Bradford Council
Marija Caric
Association of Free Cities and Municipalities, Yugoslavia
Diana Beckley, Norfolk and Norwich Novi Sad Association
Gordana Ciric
University of Novi Sad
Universities in Serbia: Status during the Crisis and a View towards the
Future
c) Environment 1: General Environmental Impacts of the War
Chair: Dr. Chad Staddon
Pekka Haavisto
UNEP, Geneva
The Joint UNEP/UNCHS(Habitat) Balkans Task Force
Richard Clarke, Marija Anteric
Birkbeck College and Kings College, University of London
Conflict and Environment in the Former Yugoslavia
Radoje Lausevic
Serbian Ecological Society, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
The Environmental Effect of NATO<?PC850(146)>s War
d) Conflict Prevention and Reconciliation
Chair: Dr. Andrew Rigby, University of Coventry
David Steele
Centre for Strategic & International Studies, Washington
Religious Communitites' Role in Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Svetlana Kijevcanin
Group MOST/Centre for Anti-War Action, Belgrade
1300 Lunch
1400 Seminars/Workshops
b) Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Dusan Ignatovic, YUCOM, Belgrade
Draft Evaders and Deserters
Beth Logan
c) Environment 2: Post-War Environmental Reconstruction
Chair: Dr. Chad Staddon
Jennifer Braswell
Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary
The REC's Involvement in Balkan Reconstruction
Valentina Mileusnic Vucic
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Environment Issues in the Context of Economic Sanctions Against
Yugoslavia and War Destruction
Catherine Euler
CADU, UK
Depleted Uranium and the Kosovo War
d) Women and Peacework
Jane Gregory
Women's Aid to former Yugoslavia
Pat Sanchez
Women's Aid for Peace
e) War and Yugoslav Culture
Chair: Dr David Norris, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of
Nottingham
prof. dr. Ljilijana Bogoeva
Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade
The Representation of the Yugoslav Crisis in Film and Drama
prof. dr. Ratomir Ristic
University of Nis
Witnessing the rise of nationalisms and the teaching of literature
Dragan Radovanovic
Sculptor, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Bojan Bem
Painter, Belgrade
Ray Brown
Broadcaster and Playwright
Leeds
1530 Coffee
1600 Plenary
Marija Caric, Association of Free Cities and Municipalities; Joan
McQueenie Mitric, journalist, USA; prof . dr. Miroljub Radojkovic,
Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
Conference Organiser (UK)
Bob Jiggins
RUSEES, University of Bradford & West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in
the Balkans
Tel: +44 (0)7050 615511 Fax: +44 (0)7050 644569 Email:
r.jiggins@...
Conference Organiser (Yugoslavia)
Svetlana Djuric
New Balkan Initiatives, Belgrade
Email: lanadj@...
Conference Floor Manager
Richard Johnson
Tel: +44 (0)1484 863726 Mobile: +44 (0)7944 253405 Email: volp@...
Private Accommodation Manager
Rachel Sweeting
WYCPB
Tel: +44 (0)1484 842428 Email: westview@...
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STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG
In a message dated 03/21/2000 7:16:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
r.jiggins@... writes:
<< Committee for Peace in the Balkans (London) >>
Note that I spoke to Carol Turner who I believe is the coordinator of
the
Committee for Peace in the Balkans in London. She had learned of this
conference from email. Unless the Committee has endorsed this AFTE the
fact,
continuing to post this crucial endorsement is FALSE ADVERTISING.
There is
a good reason for this falsity: you will note that on the top of the
list of
speakers is Father Sava. Father Sava, who works with Bishop Artijime
and
takes the same "line", plays a role like that of Noam Chosmky -
"Position
Two" . His utterances are used worldwide by the Serb-bashers, blaming
the
problems in Kosovo on the Milosevich government, of which he
disapproves.
His statements, which are often quite extreme, are then quoted by the
mainstream press (a search on Lexis turns up a flood of Fr. Sava
references
in the western media) usually saying "Even Fr. Sava, a Serbian priest,
said;'
and then quoting him to justify Western policy.
PS - I just looked at the subsequent post. Look at the whole focus of
the
thing - it is in support of the so-called independent opposition and
media in
Serbia. Aren't they the ones whose independence has been bolstered by
$100,000,000 from the US Senate? Moreover - Carnegie Endowment for
Peace?
They're the ones who invented the whole humanitarian interventionist
strategy. I smell a BIG RAT. I will stick my neck out and say:
evidence
here suggests this is a conference intended to present the
"humanitarian"
part of the "humanitarian war" coalition AS IF IT WERE a real peace
force
(hence the unauthorized use of the highly honorable Committee for Peace
in
the Balkans.)
Best
Jared
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WASHINGTON (USA)
PICKET for TRUTH
MARCH for JUSTICE
The war is not over. On the 1st anniversary of the criminal US/NATO
bombing
of Yugoslavia, demonstrate to demand:
U.S./NATO OUT OF KOSOVO
* No New Bombing of Yugoslavia
* Stop fascist KLA terror against all peoples of Kosovo and Yugoslavia.
Friday, March 24th @ 4pm
Gather for a "PICKET for TRUTH"=20
at the National Press Club,=20
14th and =91F=92 Streets NW
MARCH for JUSTICE at 5pm=20
Past the Washington Post and on to the=20
White House for a candle light vigil.
Tens of thousands of US and NATO (KFOR) troops occupy Kosovo today. What
is the result? Over 250,000 Serbs, Roma people, Turks, Egyptians,
Albanians an= d others have been driven from Kosovo by methods of
KKK-style vigilante violence carried out by the so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA).=20
KFOR solders turn a blind eye to the destruction and desecration of all
cultural and religious sites in Kosovo that is daily being done by
right-wing Kosovo Albanians, mostly KLA members unsuccessfully
transformed
to the so-called KPF.=20
The Pentagon is constructing a huge military base in Kosovo, and is now
attempting to transform the Ukraine, the second largest republic in the
former Soviet Union, into a NATO satellite to threaten Russia and secure
th= e oil riches of the Caspian Sea.
One year ago, the US and NATO began a massive bombing campaign against
Yugoslavia, dropping 23,000 bombs and missiles which killed thousands of
innocent civilians, all in the name of protecting =93ethnic
minorities.=94
= This is the same government which let the killers of Amadou Diallo
walk
free.
Today, the threat of a new US/NATO attack on Yugoslavia looms, as
General
Wesley Clark accuses the Yugoslav government of rebuilding its military
forces. While the US gives the KLA free rein to attack Serbian and
Albanian civilians in Mitrovica and southern Serbia, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright accuses Yugoslavia of =93interfering=94 in its own
internal affair= s.
Join us on March 24th to =93Picket for Truth=94 at the National Press
Club. Let=92s send a message to the mass media in this country: STOP THE
LIES!! Then, =93March for Justice=94 to the White House to demand the
indictment o= f the war criminals Clinton, Albright, Clark, Cohen and
the
others.
Sponsored by the International Action Center, for more information:
Phone: 202-588-1205 =20
email: npcdc@...
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BERKELEY (USA)
> >>
> >> AWARD-WINNING
> >> VIDEO DOCUMENTARY SCREENING:
> >>
> >>
> >> YUGOSLAVIA: THE AVOIDABLE WAR
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> produced by
> >> George Bogdanich and Martin Lettmayer
> >> for Frontier Theatre and Film Inc.
> >>
> >>
> >> Tuesday, March 21, 2000, 7:00 - 9:00pm
> >> International House (Great Hall)
> >> 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War" is an award-winning video documentary
> >> which examines US and western intervention in the Balkans. While
> >presenting
> >> themselves as peacemakers, Western countries helped initiate the break
up
> >> of Yugoslavia, by providing illegal arms and intelligence support to
> >> different ethnic factions.
> >>
> >> The documentary traces the diplomatic and military blunders by the
west
> >> which helped inflame ethnic tensions into a full blown civil war,
using
> >> original footage and revealing interviews with well placed diplomats
and
> >> military experts.
> >>
> >> Free admission
> >> Sponsored by the Balkan Information Project
> >> bip@...
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________
> >>
> >>
> >> KOSOVO: ONE YEAR LATTER
> >>
> >> PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL DISCUSSION:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "CONSEQUIENCES OF INTERVENTIONISM ON AMERICA'S FUTURE
> >>
> >>
> >> by
> >> Dr. Thomas Fleming and Dr. Srdjan Trifkovic
> >>
> >> Thursday, March 23, 2000, 7:00 - 9:00pm
> >> International House (Great Hall)
> >> 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
> >>
> >>
> >> Thomas Fleming, President of The Rockford Institute and Editor of
> >> "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture"
> >>
> >> Srdjan Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor of "Chronicles: A Magazine of
> >> American Culture" and Executive Director of The Lord Byron Foundation
for
> >> Balkan Studies
> >>
> >> They have just come back from visiting Serbia and Montenegro and will
be
> >> discussing the new LBF book "KOSOVO UNDER NATO"
> >>
> >>
> >> Free admission
> >> Co-Sponsored by the Balkan Information Project (bip@...)
> >> and UCB's Peace and Conflict Studies Progra
> >>
> >
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NEW YORK (USA)
UPDATE
Missing from yesterday's email was the time of the NYC
demonstration. It will be at 5 pm. Sorry!
The war is not over
US/NATO OUT OF KOSOVO!
On the 1st Anniversary of the US/NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
Rallies set around the U.S. See www.iacenter.org for the city nearest
you.
In NYC,
Assemble and Rally:
Friday, March 24
5 pm
Times Square--Armed Forces Recruiting Station
(43rd St. and Broadway)
Following the rally:
March for Truth to the New York Times and Ch. 7
STOP THE FASCIST TERROR AGAINST THE SERB AND ROMA PEOPLE
Tens of thousands of US and NATO troops occupy Kosovo today. What is
the
result? Over 250,000 Serbs, Roma people, Egyptians and others have been
driven from Kosovo by methods of KKK-style vigilante violence carried
out
by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The Pentagon is
constructing a huge US military base in Kosovo. Under the pretext of
fighting for "national independence" the US and other imperialist
countries have militarily occupied and turned into semi-colonies Bosnia,
Slovenia, Croatia and other former republics of Yugoslavia. This is
their
plan for Kosovo as well. The US/NATO war is not over. The US is now
attempting to transform the Ukraine, the second largest republic in the
former Soviet Union, into a NATO satellite.
Last March 24 the US and NATO countries began bombing Belgrade, Novi
Sad,
Pristina and the other cities of Yugoslavia/Serbia. Thousands of
civilians
died from 23,000 bombs and cruise missiles. This was done in the name of
protecting "ethnic minorities." The same government that lets the
killers
of Amadou Diallo walk free arrogantly proclaims its right to mass murder
Serb and other Yugoslav people in the name of "fighting racism and
ethnic
discrimination."
Join us on March 24, 2000, in a demonstration to demand that US and NATO
leave Kosovo. Demand that Clinton, General Wesley Clark, Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright and others be indicted for war crimes against
the
people of Yugoslavia.
International Action Center
39 West 14th Street, Room 206
New York, NY 10011
email: iacenter@...
web: www.iacenter.org
CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE www.mumia2000.org
phone: 212 633-6646
fax: 212 633-2889
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TORONTO (CANADA)
Laying of the Wreath at the Cenotaph, on March 24
Toronto 2 P.M.
Old City Hall ( Queen St. W.)
The board members of the ASW , at the meeting held on Wednesday
March 15,
have decided to mark March 24 , (the new "Remembrance Day" for all the
Serbs,) with the Wreath Laying at the Cenotaph, at the Old City Hall ,at
2
PM , the exact time when the first bombs were dropped by NATO a year
ago.
We have decided that this is the most appropriate place to start a
"Remembrance Day " for the Serbs of Toronto.
We hope that our presence will remind our fellow Canadians of the
tragedy that has befallen the people of Yugoslavia and of the innocent
victims of NATO aggression.
We are working together with all the other groups and hope to have
as many people as possible at that time of the day.
The invitation to join us and honour the innocent victims of this
illegal and
unjust war, has been
sent to other women and peace groups.
After the wreath laying and observing the minute of silence we
will quietly move to Nathan Philip Square's speaker's corner to continue
a
silent vigil until 5.30 PM and after that we will join thousands of
Serbs
in front of the American Consulate , where the memorial starts at 6p.m.
This way we give everybody the chance to join us at the time that
fits the best into their schedule of the day.
We encourage everybody to join us
For more information ,please call Snezana at 416- 928-0043
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